‘If someone has a visa, you don’t ask any questions’

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It was because he and his colleagues had become so demoralised that one
immigration official working in an English airport decided to step forward
and tell his story. The whistleblower said that it had begun this year when
border staff were offered the opportunity to volunteer for redundancy.

“It left the rest of us, who did not go for it, massively understaffed,” he
said. The queues in the airports kept building up, creating bad publicity,
and the managers felt they had to tackle it. So they introduced Level 2.